Asad Hamidi

Asad Hamidi was a Syrian Air Force secret service agent. On 5 May 1982, he was sent on a mission to assassinate French embassy coder Guy Cavallo in Beirut, Lebanon in response to France broadcasting a documentary on the assassination of ambassador Louis Delamare the year before. Hamidi hid his face by holding a bouquet of flowers, pretending to deliver them to Cavallo's wife. However, he shot her dead when she opened the door, and he proceeded to kill Cavallo before fleeing down the stairs.